Breaking: Anthony Weiner says he will step down. NYTimes News Alert

[Mira]

Representative Anthony D. Weiner Tells Friends He Is Stepping Down

Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends he plans to resign his seat after coming under increasing pressure from Democratic colleagues in the House as a result of his salacious online communications with several women.

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[earthside]

1. Man, I hope this is true! n/t

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[snooper2]

3. Good deal, now he can get that job he's really wanted

:hide:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. This sucks big time.

[thewiseguy]

About time...

[Yavin4]

5. Now The Media Will Have To Cover Something Else

Thank god.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Breitbart wins.

The king of sleaze is secure on his throne.

[Erose999]

18. The only thing Breitbart has won is syphilis. From fucking farm animals.

[peace frog]

33. That's an insult to all clean-living farm animals

who wouldn't let Breitbart within 10 feet of them.

[Erose999]

36. I don't think the farm animals consented to Breitbarts advances upon them. Also, I heard an

unsubstantiated report that Breitbart was twittering pics of his syphilitic genitals to sheep and goat farms in 13 states.

[peace frog]

39. The animals deserve a humane death

Breitbart can suffer to the last.

[ananda]

7. Weiner is doing the right thing.

Would that Reeps who have done far worse than Weiner (or Edwards) did were
held to a standard that would force them to resign or under criminal
investigation and charges.

[devilgrrl]

8. Everyone happy now?

eom

[WolverineDG]

26. Only until they find a new shiny outrage to get all kerfuffled about

so they can take down another Democrat.

dg

[bigwillq]

9. I think it's the right thing to do (nt)

[hack89]

Good. nt

[cbdo2007]

10. Good. He didn't really want to be in Congress anyways...

or else he wouldn't have let himself get so distracted by internet relationships and sending pictures of his shlong.

Hopefully someone more focused on helping the citizens of New York will get in there.

[Myrina]

11. Thanks, idiot. Couldn't keep it in your pants or off the 'net, could ya?

Now the left has lost another seat, another voice, more credibility.


Dumbass!! :spank: :spank: :spank:

[yodermon]

24. The seat will remain Dem. AND, Weiner will be more effective as a talking head now anyway.

a la spitzer

[lynne]

30. His "head" has already said quite enough . . . -

- he will fade fast into a corner not unlike Edwards.

[Tippy]

12. Weiner reuined his career , he did it, but Dems will pay

Had he been a Republican he would still be in Congress....We all know they would have stood behind him no matter what he did....This is what makes me angry....

[NorthCarolina]

13. I hope this is incorrect. Stick it out Anthony....

no pun intended.

[sasha031]

14. I hope he is able to to continue to get the help he need

and is able to have a happy life with both his wife and their child.

It's obvious that he has some kind of illness, the Beltway is not a place to heal form such an affliction.
Maybe in time he can reenter politics or perhaps he finds something else he enjoys doing.
He has been an outstanding Congressman and public servant, I will miss him.

[Cid_B]

16. Now now.. His "sickness" isn't obvious...

You are overlooking the strong possibility of stupidity and smugness.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. My guess his motivation is not as obvious as imagined.

Not because of his "shame".
Not because of pressure from Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, members of his party, members of the republican party, or even Obama.

It's simply to protect his wife and his family. Weiner knows he can't protect his wife, pregnant with their first child, from the cruel and relentless media who will hound her instead of him. To punish her for not leaving him and to punish him for not resigning. Nobody would wish the curse of media upon their worst enemy.

[Cid_B]

17. Uh huh...

... because he suddenly has become really concerned about her feelings. Quite the 180....

[no_hypocrisy]

20. His wife is a variable who can't be ignored in trying to resolve this controversy.

[cbdo2007]

19. She needs to leave him too if she has any of her own political ambitions.

[LisaL]

21. If he was so concerned about his wife and family,

the good idea would have been to not send photos of himself to other women.

[NOLALady]

22. Maybe we can get lucky

and Vitter will follow his lead.

[Liberal Insights]

43. Instead of dreaming of LUCK, we should have had SMARTS !

See my post about this below.

[closeupready]

23. I suspected he would. Oh well. Sad day if you are an American liberal/progressive.

:(

[Lorien]

25. Repugs and DLC corporate lovin' conservadems will be quite pleased

meanwhile, repug politicians can keep on keeping on after having ACTUAL sex with people they aren't married to. It's not even a double standard standard anymore; it's something far worse and some people here are promoting it.

[Township75]

27. I bet CNN will hire him just like Spietzer.

They may as well hire Edwards too and give them their own show.

[n2doc]

28. Wanker n/t

[jtrockville]

29. What a disappointment this whole fiasco has been.

All the best to Mr. Weiner. I hope we see more of him (in the biblical sense) but maybe on a political talk show.

[Liberal Insights]

32. We MISSED an opportunity to have a GOP Senator go down WITH HIM.

A week ago I started a thread to urge DUers to start a campaign to urge Democrats to agree that
Weiner might have to go FOR THE VERY SAME REASONS that GOP Sen. Vitter should go.
But all DUers could do is quibble and YAK, YAK, YAK and argue that we shouldn't or couldn't do that.
Why can't DUers ever seem to be DOERS, instead of just YAKKERS?
If we had done that LAST WEEK, we might be getting one fewer GOP U.S. Senators!

[jtrockville]

34. It's hard for me to agree, because...

I don't think either should "go down" for legal personal relationships.
But yes, there is a double-standard, and DEMS are ALWAYS on the harsher side of the standard. And we've go no one but ourselves to blame.

[Solomon]

40. Blame for having better standards?

You guys take the cake.

[Cid_B]

35. Nothing gets results like an online petition...

:eyes:

How did you envision that having an impact exactly?

[deacon]

31. Good. n/t

[fascisthunter]

37. the Dems Conservatives are cleansing the party of anyone on the left

talk about purity.... lol. No integrity at all.... bunch of phony traitors.

[Solomon]

41. If Weiner's so great, why didn't he tell them to f off?

Why is it they're fault that he resigned? I thought he was so "strong".

[fascisthunter]

42. because the Leadrership turned their backs on him

and don't pretend it didn't happen. They wanted him OUT for facetious reasons...

He was so fucking great that his own constituency wanted him to stay. THAT'S democracy... what the leadership did was ignore his constituency and they got rid of one more progressive liberal. It's no secret this admin and the leadership itself are conservative corporate hacks.

[craigmatic]

38. He must've decided to do this days ago. Maybe that's why

Pelosi backed off calling for his resignation a while ago. Looks like we're back to having to win 25 seats in the house. This is a total cave on the part of Wiener and the Party.